Barriers to Entry: Cady Noland at Galerie Buchholz

In the theater of American violence, Cady Noland is a cruel and canny scenographer. Her sculptures, often assembled from mundane readymade objects such as handcuffs, tires, and metal railings, create an atmosphere of brutality. With “THE CLIP-ON METHOD” at Galerie Buchholz’s New York space, she has transformed the white cube into a kind of prison. Chain-link fencing along two walls blocks access to one of the gallery’s windows. Four groupings of plastic barricades us